Chapter 663 Final Opponent

Everyone knows that Ulla is Klopp's wife, but when Klopp said this, everyone in the car booed. Including Buvac, Liverpool staff also began to tease the head coach.

But while laughing, Klopp received a call, and after listening to one sentence, his smile froze on his face, "What's the situation? Why didn't we find out at the time? Damn, how long will it take?"

Hearing Klopp's tone was wrong, everyone stopped laughing and sat up straight. After Klopp finished the call, Kravitz stepped forward and asked, "What happened to the club?"

"Alexander is injured. The team doctor said that it will take four weeks to treat conservatively." Klopp's face became ugly, and the atmosphere in the car became solemn.

Liverpool's recent list of midfield and backfield injuries has been increasing, including central defenders Matip and Gomez, who are both recovering from injuries. After the two of them played in the League Cup and adapted, the team doctor evaluated after the game and believed that they still needed to rest.

Together with Lovren who was injured before, Arnold's injury is the fourth important defender injured by Liverpool this season.

In this way, after Arnold's injury, Liverpool has no genuine right back, and the team has just loaned Clyne to Bournemouth, and there is no mandatory recall clause in the loan contract.

Therefore, there are only two solutions to the current situation. One is to find a way to tap the potential of the existing personnel. Milner can play as a guest. Camacho and Howewell of the youth team are both candidates for right back, but the latter are too young.

Once Arnold's injury is confirmed, he will not be able to play not only in the next round of the game against Crystal Palace, but also in the subsequent games against Leicester City, West Ham United and Bournemouth.

And just now Klopp also got another bad news, that is, Wijnaldum will definitely not be able to play in the next round of the league due to a recurrence of his knee injury, which will cause great trouble for Klopp to arrange his troops.

"Otherwise, you can let Li try to play as a guest." Milner suddenly said at this time, attracting countless people's attention.

Li Qing glanced at Milner indifferently, smiled slightly and said nothing. Everyone's expressions became strange, but no one agreed.

Klopp's face became even uglier, and he glared at Milner fiercely, "James, you play right back in the next game."

"Uh, huh?" Milner's expression suddenly collapsed when he heard this. He didn't expect to shoot himself in the foot.

Now that Milner is getting older, he can win a place in the Liverpool team by his own efforts, so he is known as a panacea in the midfield and backcourt in the Liverpool team.

The reason for this title is that Milner can play any position in the midfield and backcourt, but at the same time everyone knows that this is a helpless move for a player who is going downhill. Milner's real favorite position is still in the midfield.

But there is no way. Now there is no one at right back, so Milner can only play. Li Qing is the team's main attacker. Unless he proposes it himself, even Klopp will not force him to play as a defender.

And in the entire Liverpool team, only Li Qing has such treatment, and Milner certainly can't enjoy this treatment.

After returning to Liverpool, Li Qing learned a few more things. The club renewed contracts with Arnold and Klopp respectively.

The renewal of the contract with Arnold was purely to tie the players tightly. After all, there is a shortage of good defenders in Europe now. How can Liverpool not take seriously a player like Arnold who can guarantee the team's right-back position for the next ten years?

As for Klopp, the head coach, he is the absolute hero of Liverpool's revival. The renewal of the meritorious coach has always been a topic of concern for fans.

After all, Klopp's annual salary is lower than that of Emery of Arsenal and even Solskjaer who just joined Manchester United, so the club offered Klopp a big contract this time. It is rumored that Klopp's new contract has an annual salary of up to 18 million euros.

However, these are not the topics that Li Qing cares about. He only cares about the bet with Klopp. It happened that he re-signed, so Li Qing must have calculated this bet based on his weekly salary of the new contract, which is more than one million euros, absolutely bleeding!

The reason why Li Qing was so enthusiastic was because he knew that the youth team players in this game would not receive any rewards for winning the game, because there were no relevant clauses in the contracts of any of the youth team members.

In the Liverpool team, if they win the Premier League, the first-team members will be able to share a bonus of 4 million pounds. If they win the Champions League, this number will almost double.

Therefore, the bonus for the domestic cup competitions did not receive the attention of the club owners and senior executives, and the youth team members who did not need to pay extra winning bonuses became the main members of the League Cup and FA Cup.

Li Qing had no way to deal with this, so he could only think of other ways. After all, Curtis and others were his friends in the youth team, and fighting for benefits for his friends was of course what he was most willing to do.

Klopp was not stingy about this, but he certainly bargained with Li Qing. In the end, both sides made concessions and still took Klopp's previous contract salary as the standard. Klopp paid 400,000 euros out of his own pocket as a winning bonus for the League Cup.

However, Klopp put forward a new request. If Li Qing can lead the team to successfully defend the title in the next home semi-final against Tottenham and the final, he will talk to the club and give bonus compensation to the youth team.

Li Qing said of course that it was okay, but then he got a message. Manchester City played at home against English League One team Burton in the first round of the League Cup semi-finals. Manchester City defeated their opponent 9:0 and had already announced their entry into the League Cup final in advance.

But in this game, almost all of Manchester City's main players appeared on the field, including Gundogan, David Silva, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Sane, Bernardo and Jesus.

De Bruyne, Jesus, Zinchenko, Mahrez and others all scored goals. It is worth mentioning that young players such as Foden and Walker also scored as substitutes.

Upon hearing this news, Li Qing smiled evilly. Since defeating Manchester City in early January, he originally thought that there would be no more games against Manchester City this season, but he did not expect that the opponent in the League Cup final would be Manchester City.

At that time, if he led a group of substitutes to play against Manchester City, which was fully equipped, and finally stepped on the opponent's body and stepped onto the podium under the desperate eyes of Guardiola, it would definitely feel great at that time.

When he thought of this, the smile on Li Qing's face became even more intense.